I personally did not enjoy the card game in IX all too much. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't as enjoyable as the one in VIII, in my opinion. That said, it wasn't bad, and it certainly makes things easier if you understand how to play it.
-FatesServant

Fate: the universal principle or ultimate agency by which the order of things is presumably prescribed; the decreed cause of events.

Lol a race would be cool, but Kuro would win hands down I reckon as I have work and family. The only reason I have advanced as much as I have, is purely because of the Vita. If I was playing it on the ps3 I'd have a gf and a step-son moaning their asses off for me to turn it off